moni

Hi guys, I apologise for being so late with the results. I've been travelling a lot in the past few months, so I've been offline a lot also. I'm already working on the results, so ... soon.

The period for voting is finished, topic closed for calculations.

2 days left!!!

It's not that big of a problem for me, as I will have to check all releases anyway, thanks to our fellows that post top5 containing albums that are not accepted (from other music genres, or released in other years than 2007, etc).

9 days left!

Topic moved to Psynews.ORG section.

No?

You can change your mind, of course, I just ask you to edit your old top, not add a new post. There are 2 weeks left until this thread closes.

Yes.

First of all I will PM all members who have incomplete / not clear tops. This usually happens 1 week before closing the topic. If the members don't reply, I will have to figure out a solution, it remains to be seen which of the 2 that you posted. It is also possible that I might make it an open issue here, and ask you guys some questions. For now, we're just at the beginning, so I'm optimistic.

Please try to be as "correct" as possible in your tops. I haven't listened to YB, but if it is chill out, then put it in the chill out top 5.

They are accepted, I will edit your post (the one with the tops) and add this information. It would be nice if people specify double CD cases. Check your post and see the edit i did. We might separate them in the future. For this year I'd like to try just the psytrance/ambient splitting. It's already double work for me with this splitting, so for a more detailed splitting, we will require a more detailed organisation, maybe work dividing with other people... we'll see.

I will have to trust people to be honest, and if not, I will have to trust the forum members to notify me when someone votes a release that doesn't meet the required conditions of this thread.

This means more work for me you know.

We (mods and forum members) decided this year to split the votes and create 2 charts: one for psytrance, one for chill out / ambient. The topic has been edited, and you can find all the info in my initial post, on the first page of this thread. You can now post your 2 separate tops: your top 5 psytrance and your top 5 ambient. Please post both tops in 1 post, which you can freely edit afterwards. All forum members that have posted their top 5 already, will be announced through PM about the change.

This year I would be willing to do the splitting between psytrance and ambient only. More detailed splitting would require a preliminary discussion. If it's allright with everybody, I will make the official announcement in a couple of minutes. I hope this won't create confusion among forum members.

It's difficult to split psytrance in just 2-3 subgenres. I agree with the downtempo/ambient part though. For the next year, we will think of a separation between psytrance and ambient. Maybe also subgenres splitting.

I edited my initial post and added this text: You asked, we answer: 1. Releases such as Dimension 5 - Transdimensional and Transwave - Backfire are accepted in the competition. They both contain new elements, so we consider them valid 2007 releases. They can be voted. 2. The Best Of 2007 competition normally lasts one month. Several forum members are asking a time extension to be able to decide their top 5. We will extend it by 1 month. You can write and modify your TOP 5 until 01.03.2008, 9AM CET.

As I said in my post, everyone can change their top 5 as many times as they want, but I am asking you to just edit your post, and not post 2 (or more) top 5's.

Yes.

What do you mean by "available only by downloading"? What kind of download are you talking about? Free, paid, rip off? For the old albums or releases with old tracks, I don't have a full answer yet, I'm still discussing with the mods.

If more people request it, we will expand the time. Read my post, anyone can edit their top5 as many times as they want, until we close the thread.

Hello psynewsers! Every year, Psynews hosts the competition of the releases! For those who are new on our forums, I'm talking about the "best of 2007" in the psychedelic trance music scene and the main music styles that get listened to by our members. As 2007 is finished, we can officially review all our 2007 albums, or even re-listen, make up our TOP 5 best 2007 albums and/or compilations, come to Psynews, post it, and see the results. Albums/compilations that will make your "best of 2007" valid have to be released in the year 2007, and they have to be at least in one of these cathegories: psychedelic trance, full on, neo full on, israeli full on, dark psy, dark full on, forest psy, suomi, goa, oldschool, newschool, progressive trance, progressive-electro trance, ambient, chill-out, psychedelic chill-out, etc. Generally the styles that circulate on Psynews. Starting with this year, we decided to split the competition in 2 and present you in the end 2 charts: BEST OF 2007 PSYTRANCE BEST OF 2007 CHILL OUT/AMBIENT What you have to do here is to post 2 separate tops: your TOP 5 psytrance releases of 2007 and your TOP 5 chill out / ambient releases of 2007. Each top will has to be structured in the right order (meaning that number 1 will be your favourite release of 2007): 1. Artist Name (or Group Name, or Project Name) - Album Name - Label - Release Date 2. Artist Name (or Group Name, or Project Name) - Album Name - Label - Release Date 3. Artist Name (or Group Name, or Project Name) - Album Name - Label - Release Date 4. Artist Name (or Group Name, or Project Name) - Album Name - Label - Release Date 5. Artist Name (or Group Name, or Project Name) - Album Name - Label - Release Date This is how we will calculate the scores (number of points): Nr. 1 gets 5 points Nr. 2 gets 4 points Nr. 3 gets 3 points Nr. 4 gets 2 points Nr. 5 gets 1 point. As I said above, according to the new splitting between psytrance and chill out / ambient, you will write 2 separate TOP 5, one will be "TOP 5 PSYTRANCE", the other one will be "TOP 5 CHILL OUT / AMBIENT". Please post both tops in one post (do not make 2 posts for each top 5). One release cannot be voted in both "top 5 psytrance" and in "top 5 chill out / ambient". Use the EDIT POST function of the forum as many times as you want if you want to add/remove or modify your tops. According to your data, we will create 2 databases (one for psytrance, one for chill out), and all albums will have a score (points) and a number of votes. Every album that is mentioned in each TOP 5 has 1 correspondent vote. If an album gets mentioned 10 times, it will have 10 votes; its score (number of points summed) will depend on which position of the TOP 5 it has been included by each one of you. To refresh your memory (or to give you a preview) on what kind of information we provide from our database, click here and you will find the results of the "Best of 2006", as an example. The BEST OF 2007 thread is open between 01.01.2008 - 01.03.2008, 9AM CET. This means you will have one month to decide which are the best releases of 2007! You can freely post your "best of 2007" list as you wish, may it be even longer than 5 releases, may it be splitted in genres and subgenres. We just kindly ask you to add also your final TOP 5 at the end of your post... like a best-of of your best-of, only 5 releases that is! This way we will be able to make a calculation and present you a chart. All participants in this "BEST OF" thread can edit their posts as many times as they want, until we close the thread. This means that if you change your mind about your favourite releases of 2007, you can post a new TOP 5, but please use the EDIT POST function of our forums, and don't write a NEW POST. We hope that many of you will participate in this exercise, and remember, the bigger the database gets, the more relevant the results will be! EDIT: You asked, we answer: 1. Releases such as Dimension 5 - Transdimensional and Transwave - Backfire are accepted in the competition. They both contain new elements, so we consider them valid 2007 releases. They can be voted. 2. The Best Of 2007 competition normally lasts one month. Several forum members are asking a time extension to be able to decide their top 5. We will extend it by 1 month. You can write and modify your TOP 5 until 01.03.2008, 9AM CET. 3. We (mods and forum members) decided this year to split the votes and create 2 charts: one for psytrance, one for chill out / ambient. The topic has been edited, and you can find all the info above, coloured in red. You can now post your top 5 psytrance and your top 5 ambient.

As long as they are psytrance related full albums or compilations, no?